The literature has analyzed the link between social grants, means-tested and unconditional on employment, and employment in South Africa. The country's social grant expenditure is relatively large amid persistently high unemployment. This study uses a large panel household survey spanning a...

Purpose Determinants of credit growth in Saudi Arabia are investigated. Design/methodology/approach A panel approach is applied to macroeconomic and bank-level data spanning 2000 ‐15. Findings Bank lending is supported by strong bank balance sheet conditions (high capital ratio, and growth of...

Many financial decisions such as portfolio allocation, risk management, option pricing and hedge strategies are based on forecasts of the conditional variances, covariances and correlations of financial returns. The paper shows an empirical comparison of several methods to predict one-step-ahead...

In this supplementary material we discuss the results corresponding to the case without short-selling constraints of the empirical application in the paper of Trucíos et al. (2019). These results are given in Tables 9-16

In this paper we look into the interaction of Google's search queries and several aspects of international equity markets. Using a novel methodology for selecting words and a VAR modeling approach, we study whether the search queries of finance related words can have an impact on market...